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The Hybrid Jazz boasts a similar petrol electrical IMA hybrid system because the Insight, mating an 87bhp one.3-litre four-cylinder petrol unit to a CVT gearbox with an electrical motor sandwiched in between. just like the Insight and Civic hybrid, the Jazz are able to run on electrical power alone for brief distances. because the Jazz is smaller and lighter than the Insight, it achieves a combined economy figure of sixty four.2mpg and emissions of one04g/km – a figure that’s twenty one per cent but the Jazz 1.2 petrol.

Inside, the cabin gets blue-lit dials and may be specified with leather upholstery, that is that the 1st time Honda has offered the trim in Europe. The hybrid Jazz goes on sale in Japan in October, where it’s badged because the Honda match and can prolong sale within the UK early in 2011. Costs are announced nearer to the time. In Japan the match hybrid prices over a conventionally-powered match super mini, however but an Insight.